AHA in the News: 2021 Archive
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AHA Resource Covered in Inside Higher Ed and New York Times (January 2021)
Jan 12, 2021 -The AHA’s Twitter thread that compiled resources for educators seeking to contextualize the events of January 6 received coverage in both the New York Times and Inside Higher Ed. This list of resources is also available as a web page.
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AHA Executive Director Featured in Inside Higher Ed (January 2021)
Jan 08, 2021 -AHA executive director Jim Grossman was featured in an article in Inside Higher Ed that discussed the January 6, 2021, crisis in the US Capitol. Grossman added historical context to the day’s events, saying, “Everything has a history, and what is happening at the US Capitol is part of a historical process that needs to be understood.” Grossman also noted that the rioters are “people whose historical sensibilities have been nurtured by popular culture and cynical politicians willing to manipulate bigotry for self-interested purposes.”
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AHA Staff Featured in Wall Street Journal (January 2021)
Jan 04, 2021 -AHA director of academic and professional affairs Emily Swafford was featured in a Wall Street Journal article regarding PhD admissions for the fall 2021 cycle. “Historians don’t really say ‘unprecedented,’ because everything has a precedent. But this sort of large-scale pausing is very strange,” said Swafford.